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...It became a big pharmacy benefit manager thanks to the acquisitions of Caremark and Omnicare. It is also a leading health insurer following its $69bn acquisition of Aetna in 2018....
...CVS took a $2.2bn charge on its long-term healthcare unit, Omnicare, during the December quarter, taking impairments over the full year to $6.1bn....
...Sales growth in its retail division rose at a lower clip of 16 per cent to $20bn in the second quarter, helped by the addition of long-term care pharmacy operations acquired from Omnicare in August 2015,...
...The US pharmacy chain bought nursing-home pharmacy Omnicare for about $12.7bn last May....
...Omnicare fits into that plan. It is not coming cheap, however. CVS’ $98/share offer is more than double than where Omnicare shares traded just two years ago....
...showed that headline-grabbing megadeals are not their sole focus, as they sought to block or force change to smaller deals such as the purchase of TaxAct by H&R Block, the tax preparer, for $287.5m, and Omnicare...
...Central to the allegations lie the US government’s claim that J&J wrongly made agreements with Omnicare that entitled the pharmacy group to higher rebates as long as Omnicare implemented programmes to increase...
...Pharmacy services provider, Omnicare, was 0.5 per cent weaker at $24.42. The group announced David Froesel Jr had resigned from his posts as chief financial officer and senior vice president....
...Omnicare will also take on more than $200m of NeigborCare debt....
...Shares in Omnicare climbed 7.3 per cent to $41.66, while NeighborCare rose 4.8 per cent to $33.70....
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